No. 21-6025

Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson

Lower Court: South Dakota
Docketed: 2021-10-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-02-18 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED : . Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se. Whether SDCL 15-6-24(a) (Fed.R.Civ.24(a)) would have automatically substituted the petitioner as plaintiff party pursuant to trustee Joe Hill’s resignation from the Forbes trust. . Whether South Dakota’s courts refusal to recognize the petitioner as plaintiff party violated his right to access the Courts under the First Amendment and to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Docket Entries

2022-02-22
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-01-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
2021-12-20
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2021-12-06
Petition DENIED.
2021-11-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/3/2021.
2021-11-03
Waiver of right of respondent Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson to respond filed.
2021-09-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 19, 2021)

Attorneys

Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson
Kevin J LoftusKennedy Pier Loftus & Reynolds, LLP, Respondent
Stewart Hines
Stewart Hines — Petitioner